Academic Analysis
Georgia Tech

Department & college salaries

Median compensation of instructors who taught in each unit, by fiscal year. Attribution is by teaching activity, so this reflects teaching-faculty pay, not a unit’s full payroll.

Median salary by department
UnitFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020FY2019FY2018FY2017FY2016FY2015
Computer Science$179,616$175,533$171,342$164,112$158,967$157,872$157,525$167,586$156,353$146,370$147,272
Mechanical Engineering$184,599$178,609$171,665$157,593$151,954$147,389$137,497$138,419$135,710$132,211$129,017
Serve, Learn, Sustain$121,713$291,368$188,289$286,419$220,744$235,621$220,535
Public Policy$145,516$139,841$122,622$116,063$111,000$110,900$128,183$120,686$124,447$136,094$112,103
Vertically Integrated Project$166,306$163,487$159,217$148,213$134,516$138,732$138,396
Linguistics$111,842$93,529$100,915$96,980$75,600$64,410$61,955$64,880$82,942$79,117$73,622
Medical Physics$215,188$170,947$213,570$151,621$148,999$152,437$147,218$171,293$122,521$128,690$126,484
College of Architecture$90,622$213,750$70,158$159,431$112,966$102,620$130,381$105,465$81,831
Spanish$145,566$131,494$111,678$84,393$81,868$77,687$77,973$82,995$79,660$72,200$72,543
$43.6K$96.8K$150K$203.3K$256.5K$309.7KFY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Computer ScienceMechanical EngineeringServe, Learn, SustainPublic PolicyVertically Integrated ProjectLinguisticsMedical PhysicsCollege of ArchitectureSpanish

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